M&D successfully moved for a preliminary injunction, which restrained defendants from taking any action in furtherance of creating, producing or soliciting funds for a competing documentary film about the fantasy-role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. More information about the successful injunction is available in the New York Law Journal available at:

For the full text of the complaint, or if you would like to learn more about our civil litigation and entertainment law practices, please contact Peter Dee at pdee@mavrolaw.com or Greg Mavronicolas at gmavronicolas@mavrolaw.com.

M&D recently filed a civil suit in Brooklyn Federal Court against New York City and its police department, as well as against former NYPD detectives Louis Scarcella and Stephen Chmil. A $150 million claim filed last year by David Ranta, was settled by the city comptroller’s office without ever involving the city’s legal department and in turn the recent filing by his family has garnered significant media attention in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal and other media outlets:

Greg Mavronicolas obtains successful outcome in the landmark graceland.com domain name arbitration for Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. by three member UDRP panel. See http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1540234.htm. This comes just a few months after another successful domain name arbitration for the domain name canary.com for Canary LLC brought before the National Arbitration Forum. For the full text of the decisions, or if you would like to learn more about our Intellectual Property, Media Law or Arbitration practices, please contact Greg Mavronicolas at gmavronicolas@mavrolaw.com or (646) 484-9569.

NEW YORK – September 14, 2013 – Counsel Michael P. Hartman in Mavronicolas Mueller & Dee LLP’s New York office has been named to New York Metro Super Lawyers for 2013. Mr. Hartman was voted by his peers and vetted by researchers as among the top five percent of lawyers practicing in New York City for their professional achievement, excellence in the practice of law, and high degree of peer recognition. The patented Super Lawyers selection process evaluates attorneys based on 12 indicators, including representative clients, experiences, special licenses and certifications, transactions, verdicts, and others. Then peers vote on attorneys within their same practice areas across a particular state or geographic area, in this case, New York City. Mr. Hartman’s practice focuses on commercial litigation, real estate litigation, and intellectual property matters.

On Thursday, May 17, 2012, the US Department of Interior Thursday issued the final notice for an oil and gas lease sale to be held on June 20 at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. Interior will make available all unleased areas in the Central Gulf of Mexico for a total of more than 38 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) estimates the sale could lead to the production of more than one billion barrels of oil and more than 4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. According to Interior, the 7,276 blocks for sale are located from 3 miles to 230 miles offshore, in water depths from 9 feet to 11,115 feet in the Central Gulf of Mexico, a region that BOEM estimates contains approximately 31 billion barrels of oil and 134 trillion cubic feet of natural gas that are undiscovered and recoverable.

The Final Notice of Sale package (see: http://www.boem.gov/sale-216-222/) describes all terms and conditions for Central Gulf Lease Sale 216-222. According to Interior, "these include a range of incentives that encourage prompt development and ensure a fair return to taxpayers”, as described in a recent report by Interior on the status of Oil and Gas Lease Utilization. These measures include escalating rental rates and tiered durational terms with relatively short base periods followed by additional time under the same lease if the operator drills a well during the initial period.

BOEM also increased the minimum bid in deepwater to $100 per acre, up from only $37.50 per acre ... (continued)